Phyllis Davies, San Luis Obispo, CA

I am fascinated by the fact that solar cooking is so rarely mentioned as part of the solution to avoiding oil dependency. For 20+ years I've been cooking virtually all our food in a solar oven. This cooking requires no fuel. Uses your normal recipes except when cooking vegetables, in that case no water is needed.

It is encouraged to see solar cooking used increasingly as a method used across the world in sun-rich countries. Yet, I am keenly aware of the fact that until cooking with the sun rather than with petroleum derived energies, becomes a common method here in the US it will not be used
extensively used across the world. The world watches what we do here in the US, especially in California.

I would love to see a calculation of how much oil would be saved if people in sun rich areas would use the sun to cook their food. I suspect someone in the Post Carbon Institute could figure out that projection.

http://www.solarovens.org/AudioVideo/SolarWapi-1.wmv
http://www.jewishworldwatch.org/refugeerelief/womenofiridimi.html
http://energyseeds.com/2008/04/15/arnold-schwarzenegger-tastes-solar-cooking-“fabulous”/

Thank you for all you are doing to help people make the transition to less petroleum based life styles!!